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<u>Architect, Politician, Fire Chief and Hoole Resident</u>
[[File:DF10 Richard Cecil Davies.jpg|left|thumb|287x287px|''<small>Richard Cecil Davies 1861 to 1917</small>'']]
Richard Cecil Davies was born at 30 Peploe Street on 25th February 1861, the second child of John Henry. He was to follow his father’s profession and on the 1881 census Richard is listed as an architect’s assistant living with the family in Seller Street, Chester. In 1882, aged 21, he was made a Freeman of Chester, and his occupation is shown as Architect. He divided his time between his professional activities as a local politician and an architect and the military as well as the Hoole & Chester
On the death of his father in 1906 he became Senior Partner of the family architectural firm, working with his two brothers, Arthur and Horace. Here he focused more on the commercial and surveying side of the firm rather than in preparation of designs. He was personally involved in 1900 on the extension of the Bromfield Arms, which doubled the size of the public house, built 40 years earlier and here he was to host many civic and fire brigade dinners. His further work included the design of a proposed cinema off Walker Street in 1906, which was never built.
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===Arthur Frederick Davies (1865 – 1926)===
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Arthur passed away aged 62 in 1926, leaving his brothers, Alfred and Charles as the family representatives in Hoole.
===Charles Harold Davies (1867 – 1952)===
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He also was one of the first active genealogists, having a strong family history interest, as well as time and money, which he used to understand the history of the Davies family. In 1939 he privately published an account, as he saw it, of the Davies family history. Charles never married. Instead, his sister Martha Emily, served as his constant companion, up to his death in 1952. His funeral service was held in All Saint’s Church Hoole, conducted by his nephew the Reverend Harry Roberts.
[[File:DF17 Martha Emily Davies.jpg|left|thumb|224x224px|''<small>Martha Emily Davies 1871 to 1963</small>'']]▼
===Albert Oscar Davies===
[[File:Albert_Oscar_Davies.jpg|left|thumb|224x224px|''<small>Albert Oscar Davies</small>'']]
Albert was the sixth son of John and Catherine Charles was born at 13 Seller Street, Chester, moving with the family, aged 25, back to Hamilton Street, Hoole. He was to follow his elder brother Charles into the clothing trade at a young age, with his profession in the 1891 census detailed as clothier assistant. Some 10 years later, aged 30, he was still detailing his professional role as a clothier. Albert in 1902 decided to change direction and became a steward on a passenger liner – [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Majestic_(1889) Majestic], based out of Liverpool. He is seen as a steward on several ships over the following years, prior to his arrival in South Africa. Whether he met the proprietor of the Royal Hotel, where he subsequently was to become the manager, or indeed the Saaiman family on one of the cruises is unknown. His presence in the Davies family from this time diminished and little became known as to his life in South Africa until recently.
Albert’s first position on arrival in South Africa was as manager of the Royal Hotel, Krugersdorp, he subsequently went on to qualify as a chartered accountant establishing his own practice. He married Christina Johanna Saaiman in March 1914, with whom he had two sons, Albert Audrey, and Kenneth Saaiman. In the late 1920s his health deteriorated, and his condition worsened so that he had to retire, supported by his family until his passing in 1938. The family-owned property in Fontainebleau, part of which subsequently became grounds for a new school. His family were to venture far, Albert remained in Africa, whilst members of Kenneth’s family emigrated to New Zealand. The latter also being also the home country of Richard Cecil Davies daughter Bessie Templemore Shannon’s family from the 1920s.
===Martha Emily Davies (1871 – 1963)===
<u>Hoole Resident and Companion</u>
▲[[File:DF17 Martha Emily Davies.jpg|
Martha was the first daughter born to John Henry and Catherine, arriving on 13th January 1871, whilst the family were living in Seller Street. In the family, and to close friends, her nickname was “Beam”. Martha never married, despite being proposed to by her first cousin, Arthur Davies, who she turned down without hesitation. As she would later say, “''I was too particular''”.
Martha lived a full life, growing up with her brothers and sisters in Seller Street and moving with her mother and father and other members of the family, including her brother Charles, to Hamilton Street, Hoole, in 1895. Some thirty years later she and her sister Edith Leet (1875 – 1950) moved to Charles’s house at Oaklands where Martha lived until Charles died in 1952. She was her brother’s companion and housekeeper, managing all the domestic affairs as well as engaging in the Hoole community. She was left Oaklands, and all of Charles’s effects when he died and could have chosen to live almost anywhere. She took the decision to leave Hoole in 1953 and move to Alsager, where her younger sister Georgie (Annie Georgina) lived with family. She passed away in 1963, aged ninety-two, in Buxton.
[[File:DF18 Edith Clarissa Davies.jpg|left|thumb|183x183px|''<small>Edith Clarissa Davies 1875 to 1950</small>'']]
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Edith Clarissa Davies was born in May 1875, the youngest of three sisters and the one that saw the early death of her husband at a point where she had had three children by him.
Edith initially became a Hoole resident when the family moved back to live in Hamilton Street in 1895. She went onto marry Henry Gordon Leete, a Chartered Accountant, at [[All Saints Church]], Hoole in June 1903. They left to set up home in South Africa, where two of her children were born, and then moved on to New York in 1908, where their third child was born. With the outbreak of The Great War Edith moved with her children back to Hoole, to live with Charles and Martha in Hamilton Street, whilst Henry Leete remained in New York. It was there he tragically died after an accident involving a tram on December 20, 1918.
With her husband’s death, Edith was left needing to provide for her family and so went to work as a teacher in 1918, taking a position at the British School, Victoria Road, Chester. She was to become the headmistress before she retired in 1930, Charles and Martha stepped in to support the upbringing of her children during this difficult period. Her children moved to Oaklands, with Charles and Martha, and Edith was still living there in 1935/6. It seems she only left there in 1947, when she and her daughter, Muriel, and granddaughter Jennifer, went to live in Ashbourne, in Derbyshire and it was there that Edith died in February 1950, aged seventy-four.
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